Comment 15 for bug 206673

I am getting this problem with 8.10RC (on Dell XPS M1330).

Was working fine on 8.04 (after I ticked the Disable dead peer detection). Now that option appears to make no difference. Here's the log:

Oct 25 12:19:07 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc'...
Oct 25 12:19:07 balzac NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc), PID 12590
Oct 25 12:19:07 balzac NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' just appeared, activating connections
Oct 25 12:19:07 balzac NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1
Oct 25 12:19:07 balzac NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
Oct 25 12:19:07 balzac NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'UofA' (Connect) reply received.
Oct 25 12:19:07 balzac kernel: [ 5866.067738] tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'UofA' (IP Config Get) reply received.
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> VPN Gateway: 129.127.45.40
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Tunnel Device: tun0
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Internal IP4 Address: 129.127.136.6
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Internal IP4 Prefix: 24
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Internal IP4 Point-to-Point Address: 129.127.136.6
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Maximum Segment Size (MSS): 0
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Static Route: 129.127.0.0/16 Next Hop: 129.127.0.0
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Static Route: 192.43.227.0/24 Next Hop: 192.43.227.0
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Static Route: 192.43.228.0/24 Next Hop: 192.43.228.0
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Static Route: 192.43.229.0/24 Next Hop: 192.43.229.0
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Static Route: 10.0.0.0/8 Next Hop: 10.0.0.0
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Internal IP4 DNS: 129.127.41.3
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Internal IP4 DNS: 129.127.43.4
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> DNS Domain: 'adelaide.edu.au'
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Login Banner:
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> -----------------------------------------
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Staff Virtual Private Network^M The University of Adelaide
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac NetworkManager: <info> -----------------------------------------
Oct 25 12:19:12 balzac vpnc[12596]: can't open pidfile /var/run/vpnc/pid for writing
Oct 25 12:19:13 balzac NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'UofA' (IP Config Get) complete.
Oct 25 12:19:13 balzac NetworkManager: <info> Policy set 'Auto Badgers' (wlan0) as default for routing and DNS.
Oct 25 12:19:13 balzac NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 4
Oct 25 12:19:13 balzac nm-dispatcher.action: Script '/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/01ifupdown' exited with error status 1.

The last line would be interesting if I knew what it meant. :(